General Haiku Discussion

I got Worms Armageddon to work with the latest nightly build.
First download Worms Armageddon from here:

http://pulkomandy.tk/~beosarchive/unsorted/ftp.beos.hu/ftp.beos.hu/beos/...

Next download this patch:

http://tim32.org/~muzer/WA-fix.tar.bz2

Extract both achives and copy the WA-fix folder into the WA folder (where the game resides). Now fire up a Termina window and cd to the WA-fix folder and do a

$ ./fix.sh

This will apply the patch that will get the game working in Haiku. Agree to the message windows then, after the patch has been applied, from the same Terminal window do a

$ cd .. 
$ ./PlayWorms.sh

The game runs without sound but other than that it's playable. Trying to make the game fullscreen from the options menu will result in a crash though,

Enjoy!

PS: here's a screenshot of the game running on rev47380-x86gcc2hybrid on my EeePC 701:

Hi, I haven't visited Haiku for some time, mainly because it wouldn't/didn't have wireless . So a week or so ago I bought a Netgear Power Line kit. Plugged them in and then booted my Haku CD. Great, played around for a while and then noticed that my Wireless was showing in the Network. Funny I thought, so clicked on it and lo and behold a load of wireless networks showed up. Entered my password and was on the net. Unplugged my wire and surfed wirelessly.
I'm now trying to get Haiku to boot off a stick but as yet cannot get the partition to show active. Strange because several times before I had no prob.

I would love to see Haiku reach the stage where small businesses would consider it as a desktop OS (at least for cases where their whole business runs on a single application and the users don't have expectations about word processing suites, etc). First of course there needs to be development tools available with the kind of productivity that other solutions offer on other OSes.

I want to make a comment on multi-user support, though. I don't think Haiku needs multi-user support built-in to the OS (at least not for a workstation environment) - I think it would be better to have an application which allows a machine to be joined to a Kerberos realm and then a login screen is presented so that a network user can authenticate.

Business machines are normally joined to a domain so that they can be centrally orchestrated - home computers tend not to have such a use case for multi-user support these days. Nearly everyone has a smartphone and personal computers are normally only logged onto by one person. I think it would be cleaner and more forward-thinking to drop the idea of multi-user locally and just go for realm-based authentication. Users' home directories and preferences could then be shared as on a Windows domain.

Thoughts?

What does this code does?

BBox::MouseDown(BPoint point)
{
BView::MouseDown(point);
}

When you inherrit from bview you get this automaticly right?

Remco Johannes